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Matoševa modernistička inačica bajke
Matoš’s Modernistic Version of a Fairy Tale

Author(s): Bernarda Katušić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera, Osijek
Keywords: Antun Gustav Matoš; folk tale; literary fable (Kunstlermärchen); variations; autobiography

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to show that in his prose oeuvre, Matoš appropriates the typical fairy tale elements, unifies different fairy tale traditions and adapts them pursuant to the symbolist poetics in order to create his own variation of a modernist literary fable (Kunstlermärchen).

  • Issue Year: 1/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 225-250
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Croatian